Links to Information and Friends

Poi and fire spinning links

Luxotica: A fire spinning site run by my friend Lori Miller.

The Poi Pixies: A great group of fire spinners based in Victoria, BC.

Sperculism: Matt in England blazes some serious ground with poi.

fire-dancing.com: getting serious about spreading fire responsibility and performance professionalism.

Temple of Poi: GlitterGirl is taking things pro with her studio and classes

Local Links

Tribal Harmonix is a tribal dance artist collective. We put on art events, dance parties, and public outreach information events.

Scaredsacred is a matrix of inspiration that will open worlds within worlds within your head. It is the vision of filmmaker Velcro Ripper.

Links relating to the current music/culture/copyright revolution:

Mojo Nation is offering software that allows anybody to plug their home computer into a distributed network of file sharing and information storing.

The Future of Music is lobbying to protect artist rights in the digital era of culture.

Paypal.com looks like it's the leader in secure online micropayments.

etantrum.com is offering a "Personal Media Agent" that uses collaborative filtering to help you sort and find music.

Other Links

Poispinning.com is an interesting site covering poi. It focuses on what sounds like a very comprehensive book: Poi Spinning, by Michal Kahn.

Radio Bridge Overseas is building communications bridges between communities all over the world.

You should also visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression. The EFF was formed by John Parry Barlow, once a lyricist for the Greatfull Dead. They have been working hard for years to keep the Internet a free form of human communication. Canadians can visit Electronic Frontier Canada.

www.Freespeech.org is another very progressive media organizations on the Net. They are offering 25 MB of server space to anybody in the world for non commercial use, and are another good example of how the internet can be empowering to just about anybody.

Linux.com, the Free Software Foundation, and Slashdot.org are good places to learn more about the Open Source movement... click around. Explore. They've built up a good network of links. If you don't know about Linux and Open Source now, you will soon ;-)

Links to a few things that come up in "Emails from (Over?) the Edge."

The Burning Man Festival
Yasodhara Ashram
Vippassana Meditation Retreats